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Displaying 11 - 20 of 3363Coordination Nationale des Organisations Paysannes
La Coordination Nationale des Organisations Paysannes est une organisation socioprofessionnelle à but non lucratif, apolitique, non confessionnelle, non discriminatoire, dotée de la personnalité morale et de l’autonomie financière. Elle est régie par la Loi N° 04-038 / du 05 Août 2004 relative aux associations.
La CNOP a deux fonctions principales, dont une fonction de représentation politique et une fonction de défense des intérêts des producteurs Agricoles
Fonction de représentation politique :
Coordination des Associations et ONG Féminines du Mali
La CAFO s'est constituée en ONG en mars 1992. Elle regroupe aujourd'hui la majorité des associations féminines maliennes, plus de 2222 organismes, et possède des cellules et des représentantes dans dix quartiers de la capitale et des bureaux décentralisés dans les autres régions du pays. Le nombre de membres augmente chaque année, car de plus en plus, les associations présentes au niveau local viennent se faire enregistrer.
Collectif des Femmes du Mali
Collectif des Femmes du Mali is one of the oldest non-governmental organization in Mali. Since its creation in 1991, this organization set a goal to fight for the empowerment of women of the country.
At the beginning, the women who created this group had for goals to raise awareness among women about the necessity to empower and organize themselves; and make women understand that they can influence, and change their life condition.
This Is Our Land: Why Reject the Privatisation of Customary Land
WHY REJECT CUSTOMARY LAND PRIVATISATION
Most of the world’s land is still stewarded by communities under customary systems. Billions of people rely on communally managed farmland, pasture, forests and savannahs for their livelihoods.
This collective management of resources is viewed in the colonial or capitalist economic model as an obstacle to individual wealth creation and private profit.
National Association of Women’s Organizations in Uganda
The National Association of Women’s Organizations in Uganda (NAWOU), registered as A Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO) in 1993, is an umbrella organisation of women founded and women led organisations. Its membership category are District networks, which are clusters of women’s Community Based Organisations (CBOs), Faith Based Organisations (FBOs) and NGOs, national NGOs, nationally registered FBOs and women’s professional bodies.
Alleged land grabbers torch ex-minister’s sugarcane plantation
Suspected land grabbers have encroached on the 60-acre piece of land belonging to Henry Kyemba, a career politician and former minister, and torched his sugarcanes plantation.
The land, located in Model Farm Village, Njeru Municipality in Buikwe District, has been used as farmland and is adjacent to the government Njeru stock farm and Lords Meade Vocational Institute.
SECURING LAND TENURE: Proposed reforms are meant to protect tenants
The State Minister for Lands Sam Mayanja has responded to critics who accuse him of spearheading a plot by government to abolish the Mailo land tenure system and replace it with a freehold land tenure system. Mayanja has explained that the new proposals are instead aimed at strengthening ownership of land by the tenants on Mailo land so that they can acquire freehold land titles in perpetuity.
Landgrabs at gunpoint escalate in Uganda as the operations of a defender of affected communities are suspended
Landgrabs at gunpoint escalate in Uganda as the operations of a defender of affected communities are suspended
On Friday, 20th August, Uganda's Non-Governmental Organization Bureau suspended 54 organizations for alleged 'non-compliance'. However for multinationals it was time to merry-make as their ‘nemesis’, Witness-Radio, has been cornered.
Witness Radio - Uganda is a not-for-profit organization that facilitates the provision of legal representation and support to poor and vulnerable victims of land grabs financed by development financing.
River Rwizi on the verge of drying up
River Rwizi is located in Ankole Sub-region, western Uganda. River Rwizi, which covers approximately 8,200km, is the source of water for livelihood to both people and animals in Rakai, Lyantonde, Isingiro, Lwengo, Kiruhura, Mbarara, Bushenyi, Buhweju, Sheema and Rubirizi.
The river is served by many swamps that include, Nyakafumura part of Mushasha water catchment and Kanyabukanja wetland. These swamps serve as water reservoirs or catchments that release water slowly to the river to serve communities around.
Lango region: The new hotbed of land conflict
Dozens of lives have been lost and several investment projects delayed as land disputes rear an ugly head in Lango Sub-region, Daily Monitor has learnt.
Police tallied at least 92 murder cases from North Kyoga region (Lango) between January and May. The vast bulk of the murders were occasioned by land disputes, with shooting, poisoning, strangulation and use of blunt objects commonplace.